Previously worked as a sex educator, including working with kids in elementary school. While I can't speak to the specific curriculum utilized in the OP, teaching young people about consent and their bodies is a pretty healthy and beneficial thing to do in my opinion. Of course, it should be developmentally appropriate and while I do understand the reservations that parents have about teaching sex-ed prior to puberty, I can speak anecdotally from the perspective of a sex educator and doing STI testing for high school students that the average young person isn't getting quality sex-ed at home/from their parents. Many young people have already had sexual experience prior to sex-ed taking place in high school (yes, sex-ed also happens in middle school, but that is usually more about puberty), so the education ends up coming a bit late.

There's nothing that shocks me anymore in terms of what young people believe/have heard about sex. Some classic, often-repeated ones that I remember include:

- If you do a handstand after sex it'll prevent pregnancy.
- If you douche after sex using Coca Cola or Sprite, it'll prevent pregnancy.
- There's a cure for Herpes, HIV, HPV, etc.
- Some kids would already be sexually active, but didn't have access to condoms, so invariably they'd wonder if Saran Wrap, Ziploc Bags, or balloons from the store could be used as condoms.

The list goes on. You'd be even more surprised by what adults who came into the clinic to get tested believe...

i read up on the columbia fiasco. this person needs to be banned from contact with children.

Also, to give actual examples of what was being taught by Justine Ang Fonte at the school, here's a video that she used for the first-graders that some parents were/are upset about:

this has no place in a first grade classroom

Which part(s) do you find to be inappropriate?

This post was edited by Handcuffs on Jun 2 2021 08:34pm

up until 20 seconds in

if an adult thinks it's appropriate to talk to children under the age of 10 about penises and vaginas at length i'd expect they probably molest kids, expose themselves or have a large stash of child porn at home

this is not activity that normal people engage in

Sounds like a really dumb opinion

I've done it before.

I also edited my previous reply, but too late unfortunately. I meant to ask which part(s) of the video you find to be inappropriate. The video seems to name body parts (ie. 'penis', 'vulva', and 'clitoris'), acknowledges that touching those parts of our body can feel good (which many kids do), and talks about how those parts of one's body/touching them is a private experience. Seems pretty straight-forward to me.

I didn't watch no video, but I think if you keep it objective and not make it some personalized topic (keeping it to the science) and with how much access to information they (or their peers) have it might be inevitable in some cases

and you sound like a pervert



it's certainly educational but talking about masturbation with first graders is perverse and someone who's willing to talk about that openly with young kids is dangerously close to the kind of individuals who would violate them